Digital Collections
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CollectionAbdul-Hamid II Collection of Books and Serials Gifted to the Library of Congress In 1884 Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gifted the Library of Congress with a collection of Ottoman Turkish, Persian, Arabic works that he had richly embossed with this inscription in English, French and Ottoman:...Collection Items: View 323 Items
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CollectionAfghanistan Web Archive The Afghanistan Web Archive is comprised primarily of websites produced by the Afghan government, specifically the executive branch. Also included are a selection of sites from statistical reporting agencies, banking institutions, universities,...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2009
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Government Web Archive This collection consists of official government websites for Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan and provides an overview of the political, economic, administrative and social situation in these four countries. Several of these...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2015
Collection Items: View 389 Items
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CollectionAfghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive The Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan Elections Web Archive includes campaign sites archived during these countries’ election seasons since 2014. This archive collection includes websites for government bodies, political parties, presidential candidates,...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionAfrican Government Web Archive The African Government Web Archive provides links to information from key African government ministries, institutions and organizations for the 51 countries in Africa south of the Sahara. This will ensure that the...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionArmenian Rarities Collection The lands of the Armenians were for millennia located in Eastern Anatolia, on the Armenian Highlands, and into the Caucasus Mountain range. First mentioned almost contemporaneously by a Greek and Persian source...Collection Items: View 58 Items
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CollectionCrisis in Darfur 2006 Web Archive Described by the United Nations as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, the current conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur began in early 2003, when rebels attacked government targets and then expanded...- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 2006
Collection Items: View 221 Items
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CollectionCuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III Cuneiform Tablets: From the Reign of Gudea of Lagash to Shalmanassar III presents clay tablets, cones, and brick fragments inscribed using the ancient writing system known as cuneiform from the Library of...- Contributor: Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - Kirkor Minassian Collection (Library of Congress)
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CollectionEgypt 2008 Web Archive In 2008 Egypt witnessed a remarkable experience rich in political and democratic practices, and the sites captured back then should be revisited in the context of current events. In Spring 2008 the...- Date: 2008
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CollectionEgyptian Elections Web Archive In 2012, Egypt inaugurated, what was considered by many, one of its first truly free and fair elections, following the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. This revolution, part of the larger movement known...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2012
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CollectionEltaher Collection The Eltaher Collection consists of more than 2,000 items in various formats, including books, pamphlets, photographs, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings among other documents. The majority of the collection is in Arabic,...Collection Items: View 107 Items
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CollectionHebraic Manuscripts A Note to Our Readers Digitization has begun – the work is in progress! By spring 2023, we are hoping to have all 230 of our Hebraic manuscripts fully digitized and available...Collection Items: View 5 Items
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CollectionHidden Treasures at the Library of Congress This Week's Hidden Treasure in Partnership with HISTORY This Week's Hidden Treasure is an exciting opportunity to examine historically meaningful and culturally relevant artifacts from the treasured collections of the Library of...Collection Items: View 27 Items
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CollectionManuscripts from the Monasteries of Mt. Athos The twenty monasteries which comprise the historic and legendary yet largely inaccessible monastic complex on Mt. Athos in Greece house a rich collection of over 11,000 manuscripts. In 1952 and 1953, the...- Contributor: Library of Congress
- Date: 1952
Collection Items: View 258 Items
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CollectionManuscripts in St. Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai The renowned Eastern Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine’s on Mt. Sinai was constructed by the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian I, in the late sixth century AD over the relics of the martyred saint...- Contributor: Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai) - Clark, Kenneth Willis
- Date: 1950
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CollectionManuscripts in the Libraries of the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates in Jerusalem As Jerusalem, the location of Christ’s Passion, has been central to the Christian religion since its inception, all the early churches sought a presence in that storied and holy city. The Greek...- Contributor: Stone, Michael E.
- Date: 1969
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CollectionMiddle East/North Africa Government Institutions Web Archive An increasing number of government organizations from countries of the Middle East and North Africa are relying on their official websites to disseminate their publications that would have otherwise been available in...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2014
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CollectionOmar Ibn Said Collection The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an 1831 manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave...- Contributor: Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Kebe, Lamine - American Bible Society - See, Sheikh Sana - Thomson, William Hanna - Bird, Isaac - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Dukur, Muḥammad - Beard, Derrick Joshua - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division ... Cotheal, Alexander Isaac - Kebe, Lamine - American Bible Society - See, Sheikh Sana - Thomson, William Hanna - Bird, Isaac - American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Dukur, Muḥammad - Beard, Derrick Joshua - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division - American Ethnological Society - Said, Omar Ibn - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division - Dwight, Theodore - Omar Ibn Said Collection (Library of Congress) - Rothman, Adam
- Date: 1741
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CollectionPersian Language Rare Materials The Library of Congress is home to a noteworthy collection of rare Persian language manuscripts, lithographic books and early imprints, as well as printed books, housed in the African and Middle Eastern...Collection Items: View 334 Items
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CollectionPolitical Islam Web Archive The Political Islam Web Archive is a collection of websites from Islamic political parties and political Islamist organizations. In Afghanistan, Egypt, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey, Islamic religious parties already, or...- Contributor: Library of Congress - Library of Congress. African and Middle Eastern Division
- Date: 2013
Collection Items: View 110 Items
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CollectionRare Illustrated Children's Books in Hebrew and Yiddish, 1900 - 1929 Figure 1 In Vald [In the Forest]. New York, 1918 The Library of Congress is home to a superb collection of rare children’s books and periodicals in Hebrew and Yiddish, among them...Collection Items: View 10 Items
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CollectionSelections of Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Calligraphy “Whoever writes the bismillah in a beautiful writing enters Paradise without judgment.” (1-84-154.56) Scholars and practitioners of Islamic calligraphy have long considered the written word the quintessential medium for expressing religious sentiment...Collection Items: View 273 Items
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CollectionWorld Digital Library This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project, including thousands of items contributed by partner organizations worldwide as well as content from Library of Congress collections....Collection Items: View 19,338 Items
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CollectionYiddish Language Play Scripts from the Lawrence Marwick Collection The Yiddish theater developed as a uniquely American form in the Eastern European Jewish immigrant community in New York City, and other urban centers, during the early twentieth century. The 77 unpublished...Collection Items: View 82 Items